Little Cakes or One Cake

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (5)

ONE pound of butter beaten to cream ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
a pound and a quarter of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
a pound of fine sugar beat fine
a pound of currants clean washed and picked ↝ Currants, european black, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
six eggs, two whites left out, beat them fine ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (5)

Beat the butter to cream.
Beat the eggs fine, leaving out two whites.
Mix the flour, sugar and eggs by degrees into the batter.
Beat it all well with both hands.
Either make it into little cakes or bake it in one.

Original Text

ONE pound of butter beaten to cream, a pound and a quarter of flour, a pound of fine sugar beat fine, a pound of currants clean washed and picked, six eggs, two whites left out, beat them fine, mix the flour, sugar and eggs by degrees into the batter, beat it all well with both hands, either make it into little cakes or bake it in one.

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